Sprint to announce Windows Mobile WiMax phone January 6th?

There are a series of recent events and announcements that could lead one to believe that Sprint, LG and Microsoft are working together to announce something big. Sprint has been planning a big show for CES on January 6 and calling it the “must-attend” event of the entire exhibit, and announcements will be made by Dan Hesse and Steve Ballmer. There is little need to second guess what is in store for the announcement if Ballmer and Hesse are taking the stage together.

For the following evening, Sprint and LG have been separately sending out invites to the same event, so it’s very likely the two are working together on a new device. This shindig is also going to be hosted by Brooke Shields. Throw in the announcement from the night before, Sprint’s aggressive plans to launch WiMax-enabled devices, and we have the makings of a Windows Mobile WiMax device on Sprint’s network. None of this is written in stone, but what else could it possibly be?

HERE WE GO WITH SPRINT HATERS COME ON TELL ME HOW BAD U THINK SPRINT JUST DONT TALK TO LONG U NEED TO GET BACK TO UR IPHONES DICK

Biggles

Not hating Sprint. I’m in the Baltimore market which has WiMax, but the problem is I do leave the area more than once in a blue moon and their 3g coverage is abysmal outside metro areas. Sorry.

Jerry Marcus

Josh I agree with you. Most of these idiots hate Sprint so much it only reveals how much of a pathetic life they have. Most of the people here that bash Sprint they are employees of Verizon or AT&T. OR they could be a grease ball from Best Buys Geek Squad or some nosey IT person.They can hate on Sprint on they want, But Sprint is just gonna get better and better.

bob a

I’m a Spint subscriber AND shareholder and I bash Sprint because they’re lameass idiots when it comes to phone selection.

beedavis

Wimax? WinMo?..(sighs) Sooo, How bout that Verizon LTE.

YouranIdiot

Are you kidding me? Where the heck does this say anything about verizon. There’s no point to even bring that up. Retard.

Jimmy

vzw sucks, $350 eft’s. F that! I hate Sprint no issues and I hope the Boston area gets wimax soon.

Ricky Jr.

lotus 2 maybe.?

grrr

We need another speed test next year BGR. WiMax vs. LTE vs. HSPA+

1ofdakoolkidz

Test! For what. Wimax may be as fast as LTE but who really cares LTE is a standard and HSPA+, not going to cut it. Comparing Wimax to LTE is like comparing HD DVD to Blu-Ray, does anyone really care that they visually look about the same, no. Sprint will be the only major carrier on that bandwagon.

Nerdherder

True. Sprint users want to hem and haw about Sprint and WIMAX but the real issue will be, where will they be able to use it?? Not Europe. Major carriers across the pond are going to use LTE, not WIMAX. WHhen everyones 4G network is finally rolled out the landscape will resemble CDMA versus GSM, only it will be WIMAX versus LTE. Sprint will once again be on the outside looking in.

SprintFan

Who cares if it works in Europe. I live in the US and only care what happens here.

Nerdherder

Oh that’s right, I tend to forget that the uneducated can’t afford to travel. You’re the type of American that makes us look bad and that the world hates. Good luck.

SprintFan

Did you get your feelings hurt Nerd :-( I’m sorry that if i am not worried about our technology working in Europe i am undeducated and making you look bad. I’m not sure of the last time i saw an article from overseas stating they were worried of their technology working over here.

SprintFan

And i’m the one who is being called uneducated. For you Verizon and AT&T customers who come on this site and use it to bash every other carrier must have a huge chip on your shoulder and it is called Sprint. Be happy that you are with your carrier of choice and if you enjoy paying more money then that is your choice. When i travel outside the US i go to vacation and enjoy the sites not play on my cell phone. I utilize my cell internationally to make calls and not to watch youtube. My Sprint phone works fine out of country and i don’t have to pay an arm and a leg for it to work in the US either. And by the way, Merry Christmas!

Sin City

The first thing that comes to mind is HD2. Sprint needs a phone like that in their lineup badly.

AusFest

I agree. Im not a big fan of there coverage, but there plans are excellent. If they had the HD2 I think I would jump ship and come on over.

damiaking

i think the article talked about sprint and LG working on a wimax device ….HD2 made by HTC

nutzaboutpoker86

The Lotus Elite is launching 1/10/09 according to insider sources. Maybe that’s the new device…

nutzaboutpoker86

^As well as the i465 in black and the new Motorola Brute(iDen).

Clown College Graduates

will Sprint finally die off when this flops?

i can’t believe they are still around.

StevenGlansburg

They will probably stay around as long as people don’t want to pay 30-40 dollars more a month for the equivalent plans and services from Verizon or At&t.

Ryan

Problem is they are losing customers and money by the boatload. Not exactly a sustainable business model. Last quarter they lost 800,000 subscribers and had a net loss of $450 million dollars. Will they be gone in a few years? I don’t think so. They are too big to be swallowed up by Verizon (won’t pass antitrust scrutiny nor does it make sense for Verizon to pick them up) and it doesn’t make sense for any other carrier to buy them. T-Mobile is the only carrier that could buy them and that would make no sense at all considering they are GSM and Sprint is CDMA. I do think that Sprint will be a vastly different company then they are today. They already are outsourcing their CDMA network and they don’t even fully own their wi-max network as clear owns most of that. I think they will turn into more of a pre-paid wireless provider but thats just my 2 cents.

SprintFan

Sprint owns 55% of Clearwire, so i would say that Sprint does own its wi-max network. Another clueless poster posting random crap.

1ofdakoolkidz

If the service and products are not as good how can you call it equivalent. Ruth’s Chris makes steaks and so does Ponderosa but I don’t think I would call them equivalent, do you?

Jerry Marcus

I cant believe your mother made a huge mistake that night and allowed dad to fuck her which inturn made you.

SprintFan

Your just an idiot with nothin intelligent to say huh Miguel?

3 Phones Jugglin

Ruh Roh…

I Like LG Products….But if the keyboard isnt better than my TP2’S…it wont matter.

Steel

Ladies and gentleman, we bring you a next generation device, on The next generation network, on…. well, a 6-year-old OS.

Ok, sorry, we’ll go now.

Dont understand

@Clown College Graduate

Apparently that is the only college you graduated.. Cause you dont know anything about economics. Competition drives price.

Wonder how long it will take LTE to catch up to Wimax roll out? HUH, get Wimax now or wait a few years til LTE shows up in your market, and pay 2X’s as much for it. Great plan

1ofdakoolkidz

Get HD DVD now or wait for Blu-ray, wasn’t that a question about 3 years ago, how did that turn out!

mr. mario

Pretty damn good – i got an upconverting HD DVD player for $50 and movies for $4-5 each. Then Warner Brothers offered to give me the BluRay versions of the HD DVD movies for $5 each.

So… yeah.

*Goes back to his unlimited everything plan at $30/month.

SprintFan

Great post. Everyone here is hung up on a technology that they wont see for another 2 years. I want whats here now and that is wi-max.

Dont understand

I think the lotus is a GREAT device. That would be a good one for the masses with Wimax on it..

Kal-El

I am hoping Pre 2 also ends up with WiMax… The webOS will def. be able to use that speed boost since it relies so heavily on web usage…

Kal-El

No actually its runs faster than prob most other connections out there, but faster would just be even better… I actually barely use my WiFi since EVDO is so quick on Sprint… so I just can’t wait for WiMax…

codemaker

WebOS doesn’t really rely more heavily on data than other platforms such as android, blackberry, or winmo.

YeahBoooooy

Not big news. Unless it’s about the iPhone, it’s not important

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Jerry Marcus

This is AMERICAN speak ENGLISH.

StevenGlansburg

You are an idiot. Do you go to a country like China and speak English expecting them to know wtf you’re saying? NO.

WiMax isn’t “4G”, please stop calling it that. It is a WWAN or WMAN network technology, depending on your preference, but it has nothing to do with “4th Generation Cellular Technology” because it isn’t one.

AeonZeroX

Wrong yet again, LTE and WiMax are part of the same 802.11e standard. There both 4G technologies however they both are more used for VOIP more so then standard telephony standards. And for those fools that say ohh LTE is faster its not there both about equal in both upload and download both topping out at 100mb/s theoretically in the future.

mr. mario

How do you know it will not hold up for more than 2 years? Do you even know what companies have invested billions of dollars into this? The list includes Time Warner and Google… Maybe do a little research before you bestow onto us your wisdom and ill-informed predictions.

badonkadonk

LTE is not part of 802.16e, it is part of 3GPP. They are different standards bodies. Yes, both use OFDMA, but that’s about it. the IEEE 802 standard is for networking, and 802.16 makes some modifications to the lower stack layers, notably the phy. Otherwise there is still a lot of compatibility between it and 802.11 and 802.3 before. You don’t call WiFi a “3G” network, and you shouldn’t call WiMax “4G”. Yes it’s a trivial complaint, like calling all tissues “Kleenex”, but it’s also true.
Cellular networks have evolved from analog (AMPS = 1G) circuit switched, to digital circuit switched (GSM/CDMA = 2G) to mixed voice and data circuit switched (UMTS/CDMA2000 = 3G) to packet switched (LTE / UWB = 4G). There is no corollary for WiMax, it is just an extension of an existing packet-switched network protocol for metropolitan or wide-area networks.

Big Kippa

great copy and paste job, I googled parts of your answers and found the same stuff VERBATIM, get bent.

Mackerdude

Sprint please get the HTC HD2 for Wi-Max… LG is eh… But HD2 would really make an impressive statement for both Sprint and Windows Mobile.

Yourmom

Do you honestly think Sprint reads this article? Why would you make this comment other then to take up space?

Chase

If you want to get specific, LTE does not fulfill all requirements of ITU 4G definition, we should be calling it 3.9G. Calling something 4G is a catch all phrase such as, “iphone like”. At least WiMax is out

Joe

Lol, I don’t know what’s funnier, the Verizon fanboys that think their getting a better service because they’re paying more or the trendy iphone hipsters that think “it’s crap unless it has a little picture of an apple on it”

StevenGlansburg

you are right. They have never used another carrier and just figure it’s so expensive because some d-bag on a comercial is telling them they have a map that is more colored in. Paying more in any situation doesn’t necessarily mean you are getting a better deal. It may just mean you are dumb enough to think you are.

1ofdakoolkidz

I have seen all these comments, and obviously there are a lot of Sprint fans, and that’s cool, but I just want to know after all the rhetoric, are you guys serious, really. Big announcement with Winmo 6.5, Wimax (not even a standard), consistently loosing customers(even though they brag about the great prices), No relevant phone this entire year. I just really want to know, from you heart are you guys just f’king with me, cause I just don’t get it. I haven’t heard any relevant conversation about Sprint for at least 8 months, in a business like cell phones, that’s just not good. C’mon I know you like the prices, and that’s cool but at some point you have to wake the hell up. SPRINT, put simply is not a threat to T-mo, Verizon, or AT&T, they are irrelevant in the scheme of things!